The news that the Jin army captured Jiangling and Changsha, and that Liu Pi and Ma Sui were destroyed at the same time reached Luoyang, which deeply shocked Zhu Zhu and even made him a little frightened, and he suddenly found that Guo Song was the first to unify the south (Zhu Zhu did not know the situation of the five prefectures in Quanzhou).

In the past few days, Zhu Jun has convened a series of court meetings to discuss countermeasures.

On this morning, Liu Sigu, who went to Songzhou to urge money and grain, returned to Luoyang.

As soon as Liu Sigu entered the city, Zhu Jun, who got the news, immediately sent someone to summon him into the palace.

Liu Sigu hurried to the palace, and he was led into Zhu Jun's inner study by the eunuchs, who unexpectedly became very diligent during this time.

If there is no Jin army to recover the south of the Yangtze River, Zhu Zhu's mood should be very good, there is a palace maid who was lucky to be visited by him a few months ago, she was pregnant, this is a big thing for Zhu Zhu, Zhu Zhu has no children, even the prince is his nephew, although he was young There were several women who were pregnant for him, but the child was not saved, and then there was no news of a woman pregnant around him.

But this time, there was a palace maid who was pregnant for him, and after he calculated the time and determined that the child in the palace maid's womb should be sown by himself, he immediately named this palace maid a concubine and equipped her with several imperial doctors and midwives.

Thinking that he might have a son, Zhu Jun's attitude became subtle, and he began to think about whether he was going to abolish the prince.

But his joy was interrupted by bad news from the South, and he went from one extreme to the other, from extreme joy to extreme fear.

"Weichen see Your Majesty!" Liu Sigu bowed deeply when he entered the door.

Zhu Jun waved his hand, "Strategist, please take a seat!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Liu Sigu sat down and said with a smile: "Your Majesty is worried about the Jin army's extermination of the south!" ”

"The military advisor knows?"

"Wechen heard about it in Songzhou."

Zhu Jun sighed and said: "This news came too suddenly, and I realized that Guo Song has unified the south, so is it time to attack us next?" ”

Liu Sigu said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Guo Song should still have a lot of things to deal with, he only occupied the south militarily, but to really implement effective rule, it will take a long time and a lot of energy, and it is not so easy." ”

"What is effective rule?" Zhu Jun asked puzzled.

"It mainly refers to a sense of identity, the key is whether you can receive taxes, and whether the barbarians in the mountains are obedient, which is why Guo Song has not ascended the throne for a long time, and he wants to use the residual power of the Tang Dynasty to make the southern states truly submit."

Zhu Jun breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he groaned for a while and asked, "I have decided to destroy Li Na as soon as possible, is it feasible for the military division this year?" ”

Attacking Li Na was their established strategy, and once they had seized Li Na's territory, they would go to sea from Dengju to attack Silla, which was the plan of Zhu Jun and his brother Zhu Tao, and their brothers joined forces to destroy Silla and establish a second Zhu dynasty in Silla.

Liu Sigu thought for a while and said: "At present, His Royal Highness has an army of 300,000, and Li Na's troops are less than 80,000, the time is ripe to attack Li Na, the key is to prepare a large amount of money, food, materials and siege weapons, which will take a little time, it is now late August, take three or four months to prepare, and it is recommended that when the Yellow River begins to thaw next year and cannot be taken by boat, you can launch an attack on Li Na, so that Guo Song's Hebei army can not go south." ”

Zhu Jun slapped the table, the Yellow River began to thaw and could not take a boat, this timing was simply too good, the Yellow River from the beginning of the thaw to the complete thaw of the need for more than 20 days, there is also Ling Xun in the middle, the army can not come from the ice, the ferry is also difficult, these 20 days they do not have to worry about the Hebei army from the north to the south pressure.

Zhu Zhu was most worried about the Mengjin line, he prepared for the southern expedition twice, but was pressured by the Jin army from the direction of Mengjindu to Luoyang, forcing him to withdraw his troops, if the Yellow River natural danger really worked, he didn't have to worry.

"This matter has been decided, I will ask Liu Xiangguo to prepare money, food and materials immediately!"

When the Son of Heaven mentioned Liu Feng, Liu Sigu's face was really ugly, although he and Liu Feng both boasted that they were descendants of the Han family, and it stands to reason that the two should be clansmen, but both of them knew very well that their relationship could not be beaten.

Since Liu Sigu was fainted last time, the relationship between the two has deteriorated, and Liu Feng also pretended to apologize to him, but he couldn't untie Liu Sigu's hatred.

Liu Sigu's biggest shortcoming is that he is narrow-minded and has very little energy, and if others offend him, he will always be haunted, not to mention that Liu Feng directly fainted him.

Liu Sigu said coldly: "It's good that he can raise money and food, and Weichen is still responsible for the siege weapons!" Leave it to him, nine times out of ten, it will be a big mistake. ”

Zhu Zhu knew the contradiction between the two of them, and laughed and said: "That's right, it's still the military advisor who makes me feel more at ease, and the siege weapons will be handed over to the military advisor." ”

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During this time, Zhu Jun suddenly became diligent in government, and even Liu Feng with Xiangguo was also busy, although his own ability was limited, it did not mean that he was willing to give power to Yao Lingyan, the left minister, Yao Lingyan cooperated with him to kill Yuan Xiu, but he did not get all the powers promised by Liu Feng before.

Liu Feng has his own way of dealing with the government, his ability is limited, he uses a large number of staff, at present he has five henchmen, for him to control all kinds of prime minister power, this is the result that Liu Feng is most happy to see, the staff do the prime minister's business, but there is no power of the prime minister, the power is in his hands!

Liu Feng had just received a summons that the Son of Heaven wanted to see him, so he hurriedly called his staff member Yang Mi.

Yang Mi has a meritorious service to Liu Feng, is his confidant in his heart, ranking first among the five staff, what he does is generally the major things that the Son of Heaven explained to Liu Feng, but so far, Yang Mi has done a good job, so that Liu Feng has won Zhu Jun's commendation many times, and Yang Mi has also won Liu Feng's trust.

Yang Mi hurriedly walked into the official room and asked, "What is Xiangguo announcing to me?" ”

Liu Feng hurriedly said: "The Son of Heaven announced that I had entered the palace, probably to ask me about the silver ticket and the money ticket, how did I go?" ”

The silver tickets and money tickets mentioned by Liu Feng certainly did not mean imitating Chang'an, they also issued silver tickets and money tickets, but they wanted to forge Chang'an's silver tickets and money tickets to defraud the Chang'an court of silver money in large quantities.

They are not afraid of the laws of Chang'an, and the harsh laws of Chang'an cannot control them.

Yang Mi said in the face of embarrassment: "It is easier to solve the problem of embroidering gold thread on paper, but the humble position can't find the same paper, and the humble position asked the spies of Chang'an to inquire, only knowing that this kind of paper is the top secret of the other party, I'm afraid we can't make it." ”

"Wouldn't it be nice to find a piece of paper that looks a little bit like it?"

Yang Mi shook his head, "I have tried it, but the difference is still relatively big, and you can tell it by touching it, and now there are no fake silver tickets and fake money tickets in Chang'an, and the fundamental reason is that the paper can't be made." ”

Liu Feng suddenly became anxious, "Then how do you explain it to the Son of Heaven?" ”

Yang Mi rolled his eyes and said: "Of course there is a way, it depends on whether Xiangguo has the courage to do so." ”

He whispered a few words in his ear, Liu Feng's eyes suddenly widened, and he lost his voice: "Using real tickets to pretend to be fake tickets, you can figure it out!" ”

Yang Mi smiled and waved his hand, "Xiangguo doesn't have to worry, the Son of Heaven just wants an attitude, he also knows that he can't make much money, as long as he can destroy Guo Song's career, the Son of Heaven will be happy, these are not all relying on Xiangguo's mouth, will the Son of Heaven really go to Chang'an to inquire in person?" This is a trivial matter, and the Son of Heaven will not take it too seriously. ”

"It's easy to say, so what should I say?"

Yang Mi whispered a few more words, so......

Liu Feng also often does fake things, but it is not as ridiculous as a silver ticket, using a real silver ticket to pass off a fake silver ticket, but it is better than not being able to come up with a solution!

Liu Feng was helpless, so he had to take a few silver tickets as samples and hurriedly entered the palace to make an errand.

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In the imperial study, Zhu Jun squinted his eyes and compared the two silver tickets in front of the light, the two silver tickets were one real and one fake, and they were exactly the same, and Zhu Zhu couldn't see it at all.

"Well done!"

Zhu Jun praised repeatedly: "It is rumored that this silver ticket is difficult to make, I thought you couldn't make it, but I didn't expect Xiangguo to really make it, not bad!" Not bad! I am very satisfied. ”

Liu Feng said shamelessly: "Your Majesty, the silver ticket is not actually made by us, it is made by a master in Chang'an, they dare not use it, we buy it back with ten taels of silver, mainly because the paper is more difficult to do, and the output is not large, we bought the first batch of one hundred, ten thousand taels of silver, once it is put into the market to withdraw money, it has caused losses, and it will definitely be discovered by Guo Song, and he ordered a large-scale investigation, and Weichen is worried that the second batch may not be able to get it next year." ”

Zhu Jun waved his hand indifferently, "I know that this kind of thing can't make much money, as long as I destroy Guo Song's silver tickets and money tickets, so that the merchants no longer trust the imperial court silver tickets, and Guo Song is so angry that he will be like thunder, I will be able to let out a bad breath." ”

Liu Feng secretly admired Yang Mi's accurate guess, the Son of Heaven really just wanted to vent his anger, he hurriedly sneered: "It is the minister's greatest wish to make His Majesty happy!" ”

Zhu Jun smiled and changed the topic, "But I summoned you today, not for the matter of silver tickets and money tickets, I want to attack Li Na in the spring next year, I need to prepare a lot of money and food, I will give you three months, no matter what means you use, it is a word, as soon as possible, I will raise money in place for me as soon as possible." ”

"Your Majesty, you want to get the money and grain as soon as possible, and now you can only go to the old bottom of the big businessmen in Yangzhou."

Zhu Zhu yawned and said impatiently: "That's your business, I just want the result!" ”